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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] syscall latency improvement #1 
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:28:08 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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akpm@zip.com.au said:
> - If a function is very small (20-30 bytes) then inlining
>   is correct even if it has many call sites. 

- Or if it collapses to something very small due to constant propogation
and other optimizations.

Maybe this was intended, but I think it's worth making it explicit.

				Jeff

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